Definitions for churingas

churingas chu·rin·ga

Spelling: [choo-ring-guh]
IPA: /tʃʊˈrɪŋ gə/

Churingas is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 516 anagrams from letters in churingas (acghinrsu).

Definitions for churingas

noun

  1. an object carved from wood or stone by Aboriginal tribes in central Australia and held by them to be sacred.

Origin of churingas

First recorded in 1895-1900, churinga is from the Aranda word jwerreŋe

Examples for churingas

A man's churinga is not, to him, like the egg in which was the life of the giant in the fairy tale.

They are: but I was speaking of Australian churinga nanja, of stone.

(churinga merely means anything “sacred,” that is, with a superstitious sense attached to it).

Among the Kaitish thunder is caused by the churinga of their “sky dweller,” Atnatu.

They also occur on wooden slats, (churinga irula,) commonly styled “Bull roarers” by Europeans.

All these churinga are kept at sacred central stores, caves, or crevices.

He made a sketch of this object, from p. 24memory: if found in Central Australia it would have been reckoned a churinga nanja.

Women may not go near these sacred stores, nor may they see a churinga.

Meanwhile most churinga, and many of the disputed objects, have archaic markings, which also occur on rock faces.

These churinga are of various sizes, down to a foot or less in length.

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